Thuy Linh Nguyen

Associate Professor of History

Degrees

Doctor of Philosphy in History, University of Pennsylvania
M. Phil in International Relations, University of Cambridge
BA in International Relations, The Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (former Institute for International Relations)

Bio

Thuy Linh Nguyen is an assistant professor of History at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and is the author of a new book Childbirth, Maternity and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945 (University of Rochester Press, 2016). She is currently working on a project on the transnational history of coal mining and revolution in northern Vietnam. This project explores the French discovery and exploitation of coal mines in Tonkin and the impact of the coal industry on the local communities and environment, labor, the economy, and the larger revolutionary movements in Vietnam.

Courses

World History I and II survey
History of Asia
Modern East Asia
Modern Middle East
International Relations
The Cold War

Research Interests
Research interests: Modern Vietnam and Southeast Asia, Comparative Empires, East Asian transnationalism.

Memberships and Professional Associations

The Association for Asian Studies
The French Colonial Historical Society
The Vietnamese studies group

Publications

Book manuscript
Thuy Linh Nguyen, Childbirth, Maternity and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945 (University of Rochester Press for the Rochester Series in Medical History, Nov. 2016): 256 pages